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Title: My whole world is crumbling around me
Post by: sluggish on January 05, 2007, 10:38:18 PM

Yet another area of my public school education debunked.  And to think that I thought I was clever because I knew that the rotation of the earth determined the direction of a vortex...

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html

Title: My whole world is crumbling around me
Post by: Chairboy on January 05, 2007, 10:45:50 PM

We had a thread on things we _knew_ that either turned out to be wrong or we changed our opinions on, you might find it interesting:
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140055&highlight=coriolis

Title: My whole world is crumbling around me
Post by: cpxxx on January 06, 2007, 07:32:14 AM

I never knew that the coriolis effect on sinks was debunked.  Shock horror. I have to say the issue never really exercised my mind much. I was amused at the somewhat angry tone of the writer in the link. I wonder what he's like when something serious is under discussion.:eek: